Over Two Million Pounds Raised For Charity By DialAFlight

Leading tour operator, DialAFlight, is delighted to announce that it has now raised over two million pounds for charity. The travel company donates 10 per cent of all profits each year, along with parent company the Lotus Group, to its very own charity Make My Day Better. The organisation is dedicated to supporting a variety of projects around the world, and closer to home, from building schools in Malawi to sponsoring beach clinics in Cornwall for injured soldiers.

Group Finance Director of DialAFlight, John Phelps, who is a trustee, said: “The guiding principle is that the majority of funding goes directly to the cause or the people. We’ve seen at first-hand the difference it has made. For example, we’re major sponsors of Surf Action, which does amazing work with war veterans who have recently returned from Iraq and Afghanistan and are suffering from post traumatic stress and physical injuries. They run beach clinics for soldiers and their families to aid rehabilitation and boost morale.

“Our MD is a keen surfer and has spent time with them on a surf camp and it’s clear to see the huge beneficial effects it has on these men, women and children. The smiles on their faces say it all!”

To date, the charity has contributed to 100 organisations with projects including:

• Supplying flights and management experience for Shelterbox, an international disaster relief charity where rescue teams immediately fly out to remote corners of the globe with survival boxes, which contain an emergency shelter, essential tools to rebuild homes as well as gifts for children and water sanitation equipment
• Funding Standproud, a programme in Kinshasa in the Congo, which helps hundreds of children who are victims of Polio to walk again. The children are fitted with leg braces and taught to walk, with some trained to make and fit leg braces for the next arrivals
• Staff have helped to build a school extension in Malawi in conjunction with Buildaschool.com, a charity founded by a former member of DialAFlight
• Sponsorship of the Maypole Project, providing a lifeline and support for 160 families in South East London where the children have complex medical needs  and life threatening illnesses
• Sponsorship of Cricket For Change, a sports charity using cricket to change the lives of disadvantaged young people in London, the UK and overseas
• Financing two projects over the next four years for cutting edge research into herbal medicine at the University of Westminster, one of the leaders for the development and teaching of herbal medicine

The charity is also this year's lead sponsor for Sunflower Jam, a charity Rock concert taking place at the Royal Albert Hall on 16 September featuring former members of Deep Purple such as Jon Lord and Ian Paice, Bruce Dickinson, Nigel Kennedy and Alfie Boe. Sunflower Jam has recently opened a natural healing room at Great Ormond Street to enable complementary care to be administered alongside conventional treatments.

For more information on DialAFlight and its charity work, visit the Make My Day Better page on www.dialaflight.com.

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